Improved bed-bottom



UNITED STATES "PATENT OEEIcE.

HENRY I. HALE, oE INDIANAPOLIS; INDIANA.

IM PROVED BED-BOTTOM.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 82,829, dated October 6, 1869.

To @ZZ whom it 11i/Ly con/cern: I

Be it known that I, HENRY J. HALE, of Indianapolis, in the county of Marion, and State of Indiana,have invented new and useful Improvements in Spring-Bed Bottoms; and I do posed; and it consists in attaching frictionrollers to the under side, and at the corners of the upper frames, arranged to run in vertical triangular guide-pieces, set at the corners, and placed so as to allow the bed-clothes to be tucked vdown around the corners, and which also prevent the frames from chaiing and cutting the bed-clothes Figure l is a top or plan view of a metallic spring-bed bottom, with my improved device for preventing lateral motion of the upper frame attached thereto.

Figure 2 is a side view of the same.

Figure 3 is a view of one corner of the upper frame, inverted, to show the arrangement and relation of the friction-rollers attached thereto, and the corner guide-pieces.

Similar letters of reference indicate the saine parts in the several figures.

The upper and lower frames enclosing the springs are constructed of hoop-iron slats, riveted together, as shown in fig. 1, and the springs are fastened by their ends to the slats in the usual manner.

The ends of' the lower frame rest on Wooden slats, A, that are supported by the rails, B, of

the bedstead.

The corner guide-pieces C are fixed to the slats, A, by screws, as shown in figs. 1 and 2. Friction-rollers, D, are hung in adjustable bearings, e, attached to the under side of the upper frame, at the corners, as shown in fig. 3, and are to be adjusted to the corner guide-v pieces C, so as to'allow the upper frame to v move freely in a vertical direction, but to prevent its moving laterally. I also employ Wires, as indicated in red' lines, attached by their opposite ends to the upper frame at the right-hand corner, and to the lower frame at the left-hand corner, andtice versa, as shown, to aid in preventing lat-eral motion.

When arranged in this way, the spring-bed bottom can be made sufficiently smaller than the bedstead, to allow the bed-clothes to be tucked down around it in the modern manner, and the guide-pieces C will prevent the angles of the frames from chang and cutting the bed-clothes.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by.

Letters Patent, is

The corner guide-pieces C, in combination set forth.

HENRY I. HALE.

Witnesses:

O. F. MAYHEW, WM. H. WEEKS, 

